From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>,
Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] Enhance /etc/nfs.conf usage and remove nfs-config.service
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 09:19:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207141947.GD20652@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgvs4qv2.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 09:47:29AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07 2016, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 02:58:27PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> - nfs-config.service is removed, because it isn't really needed with
> >> the above.
> >> - documentation for all the above is provided, including a new
> >> nfs.systemd man page which gives the bigger picture.
> >
> > Still looks pretty good to me.
> >
> > I'm a little worried about user interface churn. We're not done yet
> > explaining that people have to run nfs-config.service after changing
> > things, soon we'll start telling them oh, never mind about that and oh,
> > by the way, you may want to start migrating your configuration to
> > /etc/nfs.conf....
>
> Did we tell people to run nfs-config.server? The intention was that it
> wouldn't be needed. Any systemd transaction that needed nfs
> configuration should run the command once.
>
> Commit: c4940fad2a73 ("systemd: ensure nfs-config service is re-run as needed.")
>
> should have made that happen.
D'oh, I totally forgot that you fixed that, thanks.
> Yes, some migration is needed. I see distros as the primary target for
> that, and the 'include' and '$name' functionality is supposed to allow
> that to be transparent. i.e. the configuration stays as it is, it just
> gets into nfs daemons by a different path.
> If people want to edit /etc/nfs.conf directly, then they are on their
> own, just like people who edited their systemd unit files directly,
> or created replacements in /etc.
Yep, sounds like a plan.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-07 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-02 3:58 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Enhance /etc/nfs.conf usage and remove nfs-config.service NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 03/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support to rpc.nfsd NeilBrown
2016-12-05 22:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-05 22:42 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-06 17:52 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:30 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:34 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 18:51 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:36 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:44 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-07 18:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-07 23:14 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-08 0:38 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-09 22:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-20 23:22 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-21 1:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 04/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support for mountd NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 05/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support for statd NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 02/15] conffile: add bool support NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 01/15] Add man-page describing /etc/nfs.conf NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 11/15] conffile: ignore setting of empty string NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 06/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support for sm-notify NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 09/15] conffile: add support for include files NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 07/15] conffile: free image of config file after parsing NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 10/15] conffile: strip "quotes" from values in conf file NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 08/15] conffile: split loading of file into a separate function NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 15/15] Add nfs.systemd man page NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 12/15] conffile: allow $name expansion of tag values NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 14/15] systemd: Remove the nfs-config.service NeilBrown
2016-12-02 3:58 ` [PATCH 13/15] statd: allow --no-notify to be passed via environment variable NeilBrown
2016-12-02 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH 00/15] Enhance /etc/nfs.conf usage and remove nfs-config.service J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-06 16:55 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:38 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:24 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 17:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-06 22:47 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:19 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2016-12-06 19:25 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:51 ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:21 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-20 18:33 ` Steve Dickson
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